Martha Washington.; AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE. BY ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON.*

George Eliot says that it is easy to begin things with a new person, "even to begin to be a better man." Very likely the same is true of a new country, which would in part account for the moral charm that surrounds the Colonial and Revolutionary men and women, to whom public honor was a matter of burning interest, and by whom the necessity of establishing a worthy precedent was keenly felt. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on May 29, 1897, on Page SATURDAY1 of the New York edition with the headline: Martha Washington.; AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE. BY ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON.*. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe